This is an analysis of the poem En Soirée that begins with:
Med Hænderne paa Ryggen
Og Næsen sat i Skyen...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX AXXB XXXX XXcX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX Xdcd AXXB XXXb XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 11111 11110 110101 111101 111111 1101010 110111 11100 100011 1101001 11011 111110 11111 1001011 11111 110111 1011010 1111010 1001100 11111 11111 100111 1111 111011 110011 111110 100111 1111010 11111 111000 111100 10111 111001 1101110 110111 11111 11110 111100 1001000 1111010 100110 111001 1101010 011110 11111 110111 11111 111101 111111 1101010 110111 1111010 01111 101101 111111 011110 11111 1110010 111111 011110 11111 110101 11101 110101 10001 11111 11111 1111110 101100 110110 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; at, et, jeg are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, jeg are repeated.
The author used the same words at, det, man, du at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word lyde at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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